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Is it possible to assign multiple resources to a shop order operation?

Example: A Shop order operation is routed to Work Center “X”.

Work Center X is made up of machine resources X01, X02, X03, X04.  

A small order will run on X01 only while a large order will utilize all 4 machines. Can X01,X02,X03, and X04 all be assigned to one shop order operation?

An attempt was made to manage it with multiple work centers where X1 represents 1 machine, and X4 represents all 4 machines, but this skews capacity views when a resource is assigned to multiple work centers.

You cannot setup an operation to utilize multiple in the routing. However, on the shop order you can split an operation. So on a shop order with Lot Size 100 pcs you can split the operation into two operations scheduled on several resources for 50 pcs each.

Maybe you can try adding a customer field on the routing defining the number of resources and then have an event that automatically performs the split on the shop order.

I also encourage you to add a request to be able to split an operation on multiple resources already on the routing in the Idea section of the community!

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